On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 06:40:10PM -0400, Dave Stewart wrote:
At 06:12 PM 6/7/2005, you wrote:
If we started posting about every fiber cut of every carrier anywhere in North America every time it happened there wouldn't be any room left on this list for talking about spam, senderid, DNS RFCs, E911 for VoIP carriers, err... wait which side am I arguing again? :)
I don't operate even a mid-size network, but when there's an outage that effects more than a handful of locations, it's useful to know about it...
Not that there's anything I can do about it... but when customers are calling and asking why they can't reach their application servers, it's nice to be able to tell them there's a problem at $location and that no, I don't know when it'll be fixed, but they can be sure it's being worked on.
But I think NANOG is certainly an appropriate forum for medium/large-scale outages - unless someone's created an outage list someplace.
From down here, like Dave, at the relative bottom of the food chain, I must agree with him and Steve, though I do understand Richard's concerns there, and they're valid ones.
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